What are you reading?

[Mister Hoarse]

One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson
Non-fiction enthusiasts, it does not get any better than this book.

[Coachmarkos]

Still Slogging Through "Game of Thrones" Book 1! (Man, that's a long book!)

It is good, though. But I'm going to take a break of a few months before I start Book 2, for sure.

[mikec]

Still Slogging Through "Game of Thrones" Book 1! (Man, that's a long book!)

It is good, though. But I'm going to take a break of a few months before I start Book 2, for sure.

Books 4 and 5 (or 5a and 5b) are hot messes, just to warn you ahead of time... Lots of seemingly pointless
meandering (the GoT TV series is thankfully culling a lot of GRRM's cruft). Books 6 and 7 look like they're
going to clock in at 1200 pages each, maybe more if GRRM's editor can't rein him in.

[Coachmarkos]

Books 4 and 5 (or 5a and 5b) are hot messes, just to warn you ahead of time... Lots of seemingly pointless
meandering (the GoT TV series is thankfully culling a lot of GRRM's cruft). Books 6 and 7 look like they're
going to clock in at 1200 pages each, maybe more if GRRM's editor can't rein him in.

At this rate, I'll get to books 4 and 5 when I'm 60. (I'm close to 45).

[KarlC]

Just wondering, but have any of you Game of Thrones fans ever read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books?

I've stayed away from GoT for the simple fact that the author is such a character-killer, but I thought just vaguely that WoT might turn on fans of that show/books.

[pigskin]

Not for nothing, but anyone who likes Tom Clancy like me (Jack Ryan books), he spoke very highly of another author named John Varley that I'm a HUGE fan of.

I'd recommend the Gaia trilogy, but pretty much anything he's written is good sci-fi.

Oh, and I've heard a number of people say they aren't into fiction much. I'd recommend King, Clancy, Zelazny, Heinlein, Bradbury, and a bunch of others.

Real accessible stuff depending on your genre.

If you like Clancy then you would probably like Brad Thor and Vince Flynn's books. They are two of my other favorites next to Clancy.

[richpjr]

Just finished Bernard Cornwell - The Empty Throne.

If you like historical fiction (this particular series of his is in the Viking era), you'll love his books.

[Rugger05]

If you like Clancy then you would probably like Brad Thor and Vince Flynn's books. They are two of my other favorites next to Clancy.

It will be interesting to see how the Mitch Rapp series plays out without Vince writing them. I believe the first one is coming out in October. I agree that if you like Clancy you will like Thor and Flynn

[bonehead]

One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson
Non-fiction enthusiasts, it does not get any better than this book.

I'll have to check that out I really liked A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Mother Tongue, great reads, non fiction and you learn something

[pigskin]

It will be interesting to see how the Mitch Rapp series plays out without Vince writing them. I believe the first one is coming out in October. I agree that if you like Clancy you will like Thor and Flynn

I have read a couple of Kyle Mills books and they are "ok" but nothing special. Hopefully he can up his game for the Rapp series.

[pigskin]

I just finished "Birds of Prey" by Wilbur Smith. Excellent book can't wait to start the next one in the series.

[richpjr]

I just finished "Birds of Prey" by Wilbur Smith. Excellent book can't wait to start the next one in the series.

Have you read The Seventh Scroll by him? Excellent book.